James Bond star Naomie Harris was recovering from a nasty bout of food poisoning as she presented prizes at the Into Film awards in London this week (beg23Mar15). The British actress attended the ceremony on Tuesday (24Mar15) to hand out trophies to talented young filmmakers, but she was still feeling the effects of an upset stomach, caused by a fish dinner.
She tells Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper, "I'm just recovering from food poisoning. I don't really know what happened, to be honest, because I cooked it myself."
Harris is believed to be busy filming her role as Miss Moneypenny in the latest 007 film Spectre, which is due for release in November (15).

Salma Hayek, Victoria and David Beckham, Colin Firth and Kate Moss were among the stars celebrating late designer Alexander Mcqueen in London on Thursday night (12Mar15) at the launch an exhibition charting his fashion career. Hayek wore a large peacock-themed gown, designed by McQueen, to the private opening of the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition, a retrospective honouring the British designer, who died in 2010 aged 40.
Moss also honoured McQueen by wearing his one of his creations, a revealing opaque lace dress which exposed her underwear.
She was joined by her husband Jamie Hince, while Firth brought along his designer wife Livia. Other attendees at the opening event and gala dinner at London's Victoria and Albert Museum included James Bond star Naomie Harris, Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie, Downton Abbey's Laura Carmichael, models Naomi Campbell and Erin O'Connor, singer FKA twigs and British royal Princess Beatrice.
Victoria Beckham wrote on Twitter.com after the event, "Wonderfully inspiring #SavageBeauty event tonight at the V&A Museum. Thank you to my team for my hand made gown."
The exhibition, which has broken museum records in advance ticket sales, opens to the public on Saturday (13Mar15).

The release of British actor-turned-director Andy Serkis' star-studded movie adaptation of The Jungle Book has been pushed back a year. Jungle Book: Origins was scheduled to open in theatres in late 2016, but studio bosses at Warner Bros. have now delayed the film until October, 2017.
Serkis will make his directorial debut with the ambitious, live-action version of the beloved Rudyard Kipling tale, which will feature the voices of Christian Bale as orphan boy Mowgli's panther friend Bagheera, Cate Blanchett as python Kaa, Benedict Cumberbatch as villainous tiger Shere Khan and Serkis as Baloo the bear. Lone Survivor actor Rohan Chand will portray Mowgli.
Naomie Harris, Tom Hollander, Eddie Marsan and Peter Mullan have also signed on to the project.
The new 2017 date means the film will premiere two years after the planned release of Jon Favreau's rival production for Disney.
His The Jungle Book, starring Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson, Sir Ben Kingsley, Christopher Walken and Lupita Nyong'o, is currently filming and is due for release next year (15).

Actor Christoph Waltz has reportedly been cast to play the villain in the upcoming James Bond film. The Oscar winner is joining the action movie as the nemesis of Daniel Craig's 007 in the as-yet-untitled, 24th installment of the blockbuster franchise, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
If Waltz does sign on as the iconic spy's foe, he will join new franchise regulars Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, and Ben Whishaw, who will all be reprising their roles from 2012's Skyfall.
Director Sam Mendes will helm Bond 24, which is slated to hit cinemas next autumn (15).

Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett have rounded out the cast of Jungle Book: Origins. The Dark Knight star and Blanchett will join British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who will play villainous tiger Shere Khan, Naomie Harris, Tom Hollander, Eddie Marsan and Peter Mullan in Warner Bros.' adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's adventure tale.
Bale will voice orphan Mowgli's panther friend Bagheera, while Blanchett will play python Kaa, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Andy Serkis, who will make his directorial debut on the film, will step in as Baloo the bear and Lone Survivor's Rohan Chand will star as Mowgli.
Hollander, Mullan, Harris and Marsan round out the cast as jackal Tabaqui, wolf pack leader Akela, and wolves Nisha and Vihaan, respectively.
This isn't the only The Jungle Book film in the works - Jon Favreau will take charge of a rival Disney live-action/animation production, which features the voices of Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson, Sir Ben Kingsley, Christopher Walken and Lupita Nyong'o.

"I make my own skincare products. I make them by mixing shea butter and coconut butter and lots of various essential oils. It's not a recipe that I learned from my family, but being from Jamaica we love a lot of natural things, so it's something I love putting on my body." Actress Naomie Harris enjoys creating her own beauty products.

A trio of Bond girls, including new Miss Moneypenny Naomie Harris, turned out to launch a 007 exhibition in London on Tuesday (18Mar14). Harris, who was unveiled as the latest incarnation of Moneypenny in 2012's Skyfall, launched the Bond in Motion show at the London Film Museum along with The Living Daylights star Maryam d'Abo and Casino Royale's Caterina Murino.
Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli also turned out for the opening of the exhibition, which features some of the most famous cars from the spy franchise, including a vintage Rolls-Royce from Goldfinger and an Aston Martin DBS from Quantum of Solace.
The exhibition opens to the public on 21 March (14).

Oscar nominee Lupita Nyong'o had guests at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon moved to tears as she recalled how she had struggled to accept her dark complexion as a child and used to pray for lighter skin. The 12 Years A Slave star opened up about her self-confidence battles while picking up the Best Breakthrough Performance Award at the annual event on Thursday (27Feb14), when the Kenyan actress admitted it had taken her years to feel comfortable in her own skin.
She started her acceptance speech by reading out a letter sent to her by a young fan, who wrote, "Dear Lupita, I think you're really lucky to be this black but yet this successful in Hollywood overnight. I was just about to buy Dencia's Whitenicious cream to lighten my skin when you appeared on the world map and saved me."
Recalling her response to the note, she told the audience, which included fellow actresses Kerry Washington, Oprah Winfrey, Angela Bassett and Naomie Harris, "My heart bled a little when I read those words."
Nyong'o then remembered how she had been "teased and taunted" about her "night-shaded skin" as a youth and how she had prayed every night for a little help from God.
She said, "My one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first. And every day I experienced the same disappointment of being just as dark as I was the day before."
The actress revealed it was only when she laid eyes on Sudanese supermodel Alek Wek that she recognised the beauty in her own skin colour.
She continued, "When I saw Alek I inadvertently saw a reflection of myself that I could not deny. Now, I had a spring in my step because I felt more seen, more appreciated by the far away gatekeepers of beauty."
Nyong'o concluded her speech by addressing the young fan whose letter had so deeply moved her: "I hope that my presence on your screens and in the magazines may lead you, young girl, on a similar journey. That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shame in black beauty."
Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organisation behind the Oscars, was also honoured at the Essence luncheon.

Stars including Keira Knightley, Uma Thurman, Naomie Harris, Steve Mcqueen and Steve Coogan turned out for movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's special dinner for British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominees in London on Friday night (14Feb14) ahead of the prizegiving on Sunday (16Feb14).

Nelson Mandela's daughters insisted the royal premiere of their father's biopic Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom should continue after learning the human rights icon had died. Prince William and his wife the Duchess of Cambridge were watching the movie with stars Idris Elba and Naomie Harris and members of Mandela's family in London in early December (13) when news of Mandela's passing broke.
Harris, who plays Mandela's former wife Winnie in the film, recalls, "We're watching the movie and half way through I get a tap and someone says, 'Come outside'.
"Idris and I and the producers, we all go outside and then we're told Mandela has died... We didn't know what to do. We thought we should stop it (movie), but they (Mandela's daughters) said, 'No, continue'."
However, the premiere's afterparty was cancelled because, according to Harris, everyone was too sad to enjoy a celebration of any kind.
She recalls, "Idris was in tears and everyone just felt really devastated. It kind of took the wind out of our sails.
"Even though we expected it and we knew he was ill, it was still a massive shock... Mandela always said that he wanted to live to 100 and he achieved so much that he set his mind to, so I always imagined that he was gonna live to 100 and from the reports that we got he was in good spirits and good health.
"I expected him to see the movie."

Summary

English actress Naomie Harris won over moviegoers with a pair of extremely opposite characters - the ruthless, machete-wielding Selena in Danny Boyle's science fiction thriller "28 Days Later" (2002); and Tia Dalma, the grotesquely bedecked witch in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (2006) and its sequel, "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (2007). In between these roles, she assumed a more down-to-earth persona, such as a comely detective in Michael Mann's big-screen "Miami Vice" (2006).